Mail-pouch



Patented June 2, 1896.

MAIL POUCH.

J. E. QUINN.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

JOHN E. QUINN, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

MAIL-POUCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 561,127, dated June 2, 1896. Application iiled December 12, 1895. Serial No. 571,929. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. QUINN, a resident of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Pouches and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it eppertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in mail-pouches, the object of the invention being to so construct a mail-pouch that it shall be durable, comparatively light, and easy to handle and which shall be effectual in all respects in the performance of its functions.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter setforth, and pointedout in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view of a mail-bag embodying my improvement. Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are detail views.

A represents the body of my improved mailpouch, made of two pieces of canvas having their meeting edges riveted together at diametrically opposite points of the pouch. In forming the seam at the meeting edges of the two pieces of canvas the overlapping edges of each seam is turned outwardly and back upon itself, so as to form a sort of iiap l, the selvage edge of which will be exposed, the rivets 2 passing through said ilap and also through the overlapping edges of the canvas. By thus forming the seams at the meeting edges of the pieces of canvas the wear will come on the rivet-heads and the flap 1, whereas if the flap l were turned inwardly instead of outwardly the wear. would come on the body portion of the pouch and soon wear a hole therein.

The bottom 3 of myimproved pouch is made of a circular piece of leather having a peripheral upt urned flange 4., which enters the lower end of the canvas body portion A.

A strap or band 5 of leather (four inches, more or less, Wide) encircles the lower end of the pouch, and through said strap or band, the body portion of the pouch, and the peripheral flange I of the bottom 3 rivets 6 are passed, and the strap or band is also preferably riveted near its upper edge to the canvas body A. The strap or band 5 is so secured in place that its lower edge 7 will project beyond the bottom edge of the canvas body of the pouch. This is an important feature of my invention, as the lower edge of the canvas body A will be protected from wear by the edge 7 of the leather strap or band 5 when the pouch is dragged over a floor or table.

The mouth of my improved pouch is composed of two pieces 8 9, riveted at their lower edges to the diametrically opposite edges of the body A.

The part 8 of the mouth is made of a single thickness of leather, (thus insuring lightness and a reduction of the expense of the pouch,) and is made with a series of slots 10, which aline with similar slots in the part 9 of the mouth of the pouch. The said part 9 is made at its ends with tongues ll, which overlap the ends of the leather 8 and are riveted thereto. The part 9 is made with a flap l2, adapted to close the mouth of the pouch, and to said flap a series of staples 13 is secured and adapted to pass through the slots in the parts S and 9 of the mouth of the pouch. A strap is then passed through said staples and the free end of the strap is fastened by any suitable locking device.

My improvements are simple in construction, durable, and efcient in all respects in the performance of their functions.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a mail-pouch, the combination with a body portion, the lower end of which is upturned or folded, and a bottom having an upturned peripheral ange, of a band or strap surrounding the lower end of the pouch, a row of rivets passing through the band or strap, the lower folded end of the body portion and the iiange of the bottom whereby said parts are rigidly secured together, and a row of rivets passed through the band or strap and the body portion, substantially as set forth.

2. In a mail-pouch, the combination witha body portion having an upturned lower edge, and a bot-tom having an upturned peripheral flange, of a band or strap surrounding the lower end of the pouch and projecting beyond the end thereof, wherebyto constitute a guard IOO f Certain portion of the Wear which would otherwise come upon the bug proper, substantially :Ls set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this 15.

specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN E. QUINN.

W tn esses:

yR. S. FERGUSON,

C. S. DRURY. 

